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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : nickname for a small man, from poc ‘little’, which in old Catalan meant also ‘small’ (Latin paucus).
  • German (Bavarian) : variant of Boch (see Bock).
  • Respelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Pokh; unexplained.

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